John Borton

  General Notes:

BORTON-John Borton, a signer of the "Concessions and Agreements" and Ann, his wife, from the Parish of Aynhoe, Northamptonshire, England, arrived at Burlington in 1679. "Hillsdown" the ancestral home of the Borton family originally containing 200 acres, was located on the south side of Rancocas Creek below Centreton and extended back to the village of Masonville. This tract was surveyed for John Borton on April 26th, 1682. The following record, however, published in the New Jersey Archives clearly indicates that they first settled on the northern side of the Creek. A memorandum of deed dated Third month 27th, 1680, reads as follows: "Daniel Wills of Rancocas New Jersey, Doctor of Physick, to John Boarton² of the same place, husbandman, for 110 acres, north grantor and south John Payne."
The children of John and Ann Borton were John, William, Ann, Elizabeth, Esther, Mary and Susanna. John Borton, Sr., died in 1687 and John, Jr., inherited "Hilisdown lying on ye south side of Northampton River being in quantity 300 acres or somewhat more" with the exception of a onethird interest left to his widow. William inherited the settlement "fronting upon Northampton River northward being in quantity 110 acres and somewhat more." This evidently was the farm on the northern side of the Creek adjoining Daniel Wills.
It is stated in the Genealogy of the Borton and Mason families, written by Freeman C. Mason, that John Borton, Jr. and William Borton "purchased land on the Northampton River (now Rancocas Creek) in Eighth month, 1681, 175 and 150 acres respectively." This is undoubtedly an error as John was then 12 years of age and William 9. The
name Borton is spelled Boarton, Bourton and Bourten in the early records. It is evident that many of our ancestors spelled phonetically as the names of most of the old Burlington County families are spelled in various ways.

From: http://www.westjerseyhistory.org/books/decou1/mtn17.html

John married Anne Kinton, daughter of William Kinton and Elizabeth Pock. (Anne Kinton was born about 1636 in Aynhoe, Northamptonshire, England and died on 10 Jul 1688 in Rancocas, Evesham, Burlington, New Jersey.)